Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing

The oldest literary magazine in Australia, Meanjin, It is closed today Crirase can reveal.

The organization said that the decision was given by Melbourne University Publications (MUP) for completely financial reasons ”. But, Crirase moments Mean Jin Melbourne University Council Board has also been under constant pressure.

MUP confirmed this Mean JinThe two staff, editor Esther Anatolitis and Editorial Assistant Eli McLean, did not participate in the decision and became unnecessary. Thursday, founded in Brisbane in 1940 and then moved to Melbourne under the direction of Melbourne University.

Crirase In addition to questions about potential legal processes, the anatolite approached the allegations that he was behind publication pressure and the publication of financial concerns, but did not offer a response.

Louise Adler, then the CEO of MUP Mean Jin It was placed under its management in 2007, Cirikey, “The landscape of the literary magazine in Australia has gradually decreased due to a diminishing subscriber base and lack of funds from government agencies. Mean JinAnd this is an institution, easy to close. It is much more difficult to create changes.

“Mean Jin There was a remarkable history, really important trials, and a series of bright editors from Clem Christenn to Jonathan Green. Considering the chests of Melbourne University, the insignificant amount Mean Jin Annually, there was a small coin for the intellectual contribution of the magazine to our literary culture in the best way. “

Jonathan Green from ABC, old Mean Jin Editor, “Death Mean Jin It is a loss in the cultural memory of the country and a loss to writers who can be a part of their literary gift and future. This is a magazine founded as a contagious against Australia’s tendency to intellectualism during World War II, our habit of punching a national creative expression.

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“Meanjin’s The financial demand is insignificant… A few hundred thousand dollars… The cultural loss of death is as important as tragic. “

Author Sophie Cunningham, also old Mean Jin “I’m very sorry to hear that Melbourne University has closed the oldest literary magazine in Australia.

“This strengthens the feeling that universities do not have areas that support or nurture the literature or arts in this country. They certainly showed that they have not been able to manage the complexity of the freedom of speaking or freedom of speaking in the last few years.”

Management in 2007 Mean Jin He was controversially shifted From Melbourne University to MUP with literary critics such as Peter Craven don’t write“The University of Melbourne decided to implement financial tests for a non -profit broadcast subsidized by the editors that organized it.”

“It will probably disappear Mean Jin”He wrote.

A statement made by MUP President Professor Warren Bebbington Crirase He said, “Literature Magazine Mean Jin He will stop the broadcast after his last issue in December 2025. This is a matter of deep regret for everyone at the University Press, because Meanjine has reached the 85th anniversary of a distinguished history as a MUP pressure in the last 17 years.

“The decision was made entirely for financial reasons, and the Board has no longer found it appropriate to produce two -time personnel ongoing the ongoing journal. Mean Jin They weren’t included in the decision that led to being unnecessary this week. “

Mean Jin first published Meanjine Papers Editor Clem Christensen is named after the traditional Turrbal and Yuggera for the spear -shaped area of ​​Brisbane in Brisbane in December 1940. (However, Yagarabul edler Gaja Kerry Charlton had written inside Mean JinThe real writing of the word is a much more complex question.)

The magazine for a long time has influenced Australia’s cultural and literary discourse, and indeed depends on the history of our literature. In the last twenty years, Helen Garner published Australian literary titans such as Helen Garner, Patrick White, Gerald Murnane and AA Phillips, and the second took part in their paper. now the famous term “Cultural Crisis”. Mean Jin Ooderoo NOCCAL, Alexis Wright, Tony Birch, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Ellen Van Neerven, such as many local writers gave only a few names.

Mean JinThe upcoming and the latest version of the 85th anniversary, with special articles such as Bruce Pascoe, Poet п. O. and Ellen Van Neerven.

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